2008 Mar 19, 11:30Excellent rant on the history and state of IE8's decision to default to super-standards mode vs IE7 mode.
browser internet browser-war ie microsoft history w3c standard standards html css joel-on-software 2008 Mar 15, 9:39Lots of intereseting previously undocumented protocols in here.
via:ericlaw msdn uri scheme microsoft 2008 Mar 13, 10:49How to install subversion on Windows.
svn reference blog article subversion windows microsoft 2008 Mar 8, 11:54Wiki on Channel9 where folks lodge standards complaints against IE.
microsoft ie browser standards wiki 2008 Mar 5, 1:33Bug tracking database for IE8 Beta1.
ie ie8 microsoft bug 2008 Mar 5, 1:05Download IE8 Beta1 here.
beta browser download ie ie8 internet microsoft 2008 Mar 5, 11:36
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available now. I can finally talk about some of the stuff I've been
working on for the past year or so: activities. Activities let you select a document,
some text on a document, or a link to a document and run that selection through a web service. For example, you could select a word on a webpage and look it up in Wikipedia, select an address and
map it on Yahoo Maps, select a webpage and translate it into English with Windows Live Translator, or select a link and add it to Digg.
IE8 comes installed with some activities based on Microsoft web services but there's a page you can go to to
install other activities. However, that page is missing some of my favorites that I use all the time, like del.icio.us.
Accordingly, I've put together a page of the activities I use. MSDN has all the info on creating Activities.
Activities are very similar to other existing features in other browsers including the ability to add context menu items to IE.
There's two important differences which make activities better. Activities have a preview window that pops out when you hover over an activity, which is useful to get in place information easily
provided by developers. The other is that the interface is explicit and takes after HTML FORMs and OpenSearch descriptions. Because the interface is explicitly described in XML (unlike the context
menu additions described above which run arbitrary script) we have the ability to use activities in places other than on a webpage in the future. And because activity definitions are similar to
HTML FORMs, if your webservice has an HTML FORM describing it you can easily create an activity.
microsoft technical activity openservice ie8 ie activities msdn 2008 Mar 5, 9:50"In conjunction with the Beta 1 release of Internet Explorer 8, we are posting a set of tests we are using to validate our interpretation and implementation of the CSS 2.1 specification. We are doing
this so we can get some feedback from you, the web desi
css test w3c microsoft msdn ie browser ie8 2008 Mar 4, 11:01Google's My Maps: "And now, this morning, Google has updated its Maps product yet again, adding "My Maps", user-generated collections of annotated placemarks, lines, and polygons."
google map microsoft live georss blog article 2008 Mar 4, 10:57Live Maps supports exporting collections you make in Live Maps as a GeoRSS feed. That's neat, but what I want to do is add my flickr GeoRSS feed to a collection in Live Maps...
georss live microsoft maps blog article 2008 Mar 3, 3:24Actually, we're going to default to the new super standards mode after all. Didn't see that coming -- did ya?
html ie ie8 microsoft internet browser standards blog 2008 Feb 25, 1:26"In some cases, it may be desirable to invoke another application to handle a custom protocol. To do so, register the existing application as a URL Protocol handler."
msdn reference microsoft uri application-protocol-handler 2008 Feb 21, 1:16Amy Sedaris in "Rabbit Rescue". It's a an ad for Office, but it has bunnies in it.
amy-sedaris humor bunny youtube video cute office microsoft ad for:hellosarah 2008 Feb 20, 6:44Develop games using XNA available on the Zune. Sounds neat. Remember that if you're a student you can do XNA dev for free now...
microsoft arstechnica zune xna xbox game games development news 2008 Feb 19, 12:33MS dev tools now free for students FTA: "Microsoft DreamSpark enables students to download Microsoft developer and design tools at no charge." I would have loved this as a student.
microsoft student education development visual-studio c++ free 2008 Feb 18, 1:34
I got a FlickrMail from Emma J. Williams a bit ago saying that they wanted to
use two of my photos in their Schmap San Francisco Guide online travel guide. So now you can see two of my vacation photos on the Westfield San Francisco Shopping Center Schmap page and the Hotel Diva Schmap page.
I think its wonderful that digital cameras are at
the point where I really don't have to know much about their workings to produce a photo that's reasonable looking. And its thanks to Flickr and searchable tags that Schmap could find my photos.
Since my photos on Flickr are all licensed under a Creative Commons license named Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works
2.0 Generic which only applies to non-commercial uses, Schmap, which is advertisement supported, kindly asked me if they could use my photos. I agreed to their license which was human readable
and included wonderful stuff like I get in place attribution and the license is only applicable while Schmap makes their guide freely available online.
Previously I've only heard of folks having their flickr photos used without their permission so I'm glad to know that's not always the case. Or
perhaps this is just Schmap's clever method of getting me to blog about them.
me photos creative-commons shcmap flickr 2008 Feb 16, 11:53The free downloadable versions of Visual Studio
microsoft visual-studio csharp c c++ trial express free 2008 Feb 15, 6:47A bug in Excel causes values that should be 65k to be 100k.
excel humor miscalculation bug 2008 Feb 11, 5:50The story of South Korea's ActiveX web encryption scheme.
blog article ie internet microsoft mozilla security ssl activex korea south-korea seed 2008 Feb 7, 2:36To summ up the last Q&A, the one I was interested in: "Is there any way to escape the characters " and ' in an XPath expression...". And their answer is no. Lame. I thought XPath folk would have
defined this.
microsoft msdn xpath xml article
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